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Where to Watch The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011) in the US
- 2011
- TV-G
- 1h 35m
- 6.2IMDb
- 40%Rotten Tomatoes
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What it's about
It's 1976, and Elizabeth is just your average suburban eleven-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed "truth", to which she's been clinging, and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who's searching for a mother, both of them really searching for themselves. This movie is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female, coming-of-age story that explores the tension between creating identity, and finding it within.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Tara Johns
- Writer
- Tara Johns
- Starring
- Julia Sarah Stone, Rebecca Windheim, Rebecca Croll
Details
- Release date
- Oct 12, 2012
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total
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- Where to watch The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom in the United States?
- The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is available with a subscription, free with ads, free with a participating library card, or to rent in the United States. Watch the movie with a subscription on Prime Video (HD). Watch the movie free with ads on Fandango at Home (HD), Plex Channel (HD), and Plex Player (HD). Watch the movie free with a participating library card on Fawesome (HD) and YOW.tv (HD). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store, Fandango at Home, and Prime Video.
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- Watch the movie with a subscription on Prime Video (HD). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store, Fandango at Home, and Prime Video.
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- Watch the movie free with ads on Fandango at Home (HD), Plex Channel (HD), and Plex Player (HD). Watch the movie free with a participating library card on Fawesome (HD) and YOW.tv (HD).
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